| The Caxtons.—Part the Last, | 391 |
| Lynmouth Revisited, | 412 |
| What has Revolutionising Germany attained? | 424 |
| The Green Hand—A "Short" Yarn. Part V. | 436 |
| Physical Geography, | 456 |
| Civil Revolution in the Canadas.—A Remedy, | 471 |
| The English Mail-Coach, or the Glory of Motion, | 485 |
| Diary of Samuel Pepys, | 501 |
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Adieu, thou beautiful land! Canaanof the exiles, and Ararat to many ashattered ark! Fair cradle of a racefor whom the unbounded heritage ofa future, that no sage can conjecture,no prophet divine, lies afar in thegolden promise-light of Time!—destined,perchance, from the sins andsorrows of a civilisation strugglingwith its own elements of decay, torenew the youth of the world, andtransmit the great soul of Englandthrough the cycles of Infinite Change.All climates that can best ripen theproducts of earth, or form into variouscharacter and temper the differentfamilies of man, "rain influences" fromthe heaven, that smiles so benignlyon those who had once shrunk, ragged,from the wind, or scowled on thethankless sun. Here, the hardy airof the chill Mother Isle, there the mildwarmth of Italian autumns, or thebreathless glow of the tropics. Andwith the beams of every climate, glidessubtle Hope. Of her there, it maybe said as of Light itself, in those exquisitelines of a neglected poet—